Books By The Foot

Rentals

Books By The Foot creates custom rental libraries to match and enhance the look of any set, photo shoot, design installation, wedding or event. Past clients include Saturday Night Live, Something's Gotta Give and The Royal Tenenbaums. Our team of experts will scour the Strand to select books by color, genre, binding, subject, size, and more to create the perfect collection.

Collections can be curated in as fast as one day. Contact us at bbtf@strandbooks.com or 212-660-6646. Please note that prices may vary based on add-ons and special requests. To ensure a timely delivery, please let us know your lead time in advance.

Art Books (Oversize Coffee Table Books)

$75.00/ft Rental

Add some art and culture to your library with a customized collection of over-sized, hardcover art books, perfect for display. We can customize by size, color and genre. Choose a subject, like Fashion, Artist Monographs, Photography, Architecture, Design, Contemporary Art, Art By Region, or do a mix of them all!

Biographies

$35.00/ft Rental

A fabulous assortment of hardcover books on the lives of important figures throughout history. Read about the lives of great artists, writers, musicians, presidents, generals, or any person who catches your interest!

Choose Your Subject (Over-sized Coffee Table Books)

$75.00/ft Rental

Customize your library with a mix of over-sized, hardcover coffee table books on your favorite topics. We have a great assortment of categories to choose from including travel, history, film and drama, sports, film & drama, cookbooks, gardening books, oceans, natural history, etc. These books are primarily visual in nature with color or black and white photography.

Choose Your Subject (Trade-Sized)

$35.00/ft Rental

Customize your library with a mix of trade-sized books on all of your favorite subjects. We have an incredible array of categories to choose from such as travel, New York City, film & drama, sports, gardening books, oceans, natural history, etc. These books are primarily textual books with little to no photography.

Classics for Children

$35.00/ft Rental

Build a library collection to share with your children! We'll customize a collection of all of the beloved books of youth to inspire and grow their budding young minds! Books are hardcover and can be customized for your child's tastes.

English Language Antique Leather Books

$150.00/ft Rental

Beautiful antique leather books with gold tooling and marbled or gilded edges. These books are from the 18th, 19th and early 20th century and represent a variety of subjects such as history, literature and poetry.

$35.00/ft Rental

Fiction Classics

$35.00/ft Rental

An amazing assortment of collectible hardcover fiction from cherished masterpieces to modern classics. Let us know which authors or genres you love and we'll customize your collection of classic reading based on your input. We can even customize by color!

Heritage Classics

$35.00/ft Rental

Classic titles from the Heritage Classics series include works from the greats of literature, history and philosophy. Authors can include Dickens, Twain, Shakespeare, etc. The books are lovely linen bound volumes, finely illustrated and often in their original slip case.

Law Books

$35.00/ft Rental

Modern Library Classics

$35.00/ft Rental

Enjoy the classics of history, literature, poetry, theater, and philosophy with these adorable volumes published by Random House. Billed as the “World's Best Books”, these classic tomes are an excellent value and one of our most popular sellers!

New Leather Classics

$50.00/ft Rental

Reprints of all the great classics of literature and history in beautiful full leather with gold tooling and gilded paper. These titles published by the Franklin Library and Easton Press make beautiful gifts that will be treasured always; keep them and they will be cherished books to pass on to future generations.

Pocket Paperbacks

$35.00/ft Rental

These small scale paperbacks are excellent reads and under 7" tall! All of these titles are classics and bestsellers with an average of 14-15 books per foot. These pocket-sized books are great travel reads and an excellent value.

Poetry

$35.00/ft Rental

Add some poetry to your collection! Request a selection of poetry books from all your beloved bards. We can put together hardcover collections of the young, modern poets or a selection of poetry penned by the literary greats!

Reference Books

$35.00/ft Rental

A terrific assortment of over-sized and medium-sized hardcover reference books including encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauruses, etc. Bindings are a mix of faux-leather, cloth and dust-jacketed books.